About time we made a Puro thread seeing as there's an Indy one and it deserves a seperate thread. You can use this to discuss any Puro matches or shows, past or present.
I've just finished this awesome set so I may as well get the thread up and running with some ratings for it.
ivp's Top 25 Matches in NOAH History
Disc 1
25. Jushin 'Thunder' Liger & Koji Kanemoto vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi - January 26th 2003 - Kobe World Hall ***1/2
24. Mitsuharu Misawa & Yoshinari Ogawa vs. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA - April 25th 2004 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ****1/2+
23. Jushin 'Thunder' Liger vs. Makoto Hashi - March 6th 2004 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ***3/4
Disc 2
22. Kenta Kobashi vs. Minoru Suzuki - January 8th 2005 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ***3/4
21. Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikio vs. Takeshi Morishima & Muhammad Yone - April 1st 2007 - Tokyo Korakuen Hall ****1/4
20. Naomichi Marufuji & Minoru Suzuki vs. Makoto Hashi & Jun Akiyama - July 18th 2005 - Tokyo Dome ****
19. Jun Akiyama & Takeshi Rikio vs. Yoshihiro Takayama & Takashi Sugiura - April 28th 2007 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ***3/4
Disc 3
18. Kenta Kobashi & Yoshihiro Takayama vs. Jun Akiyama & Mitsuharu Misawa - December 2nd 2007 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ****1/4
17. Akira Taue vs. Yuji Nagata - June 6th 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ***1/2
16. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Makoto Hashi - September 12th 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ****1/4
Disc 4
15. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito vs. Kenta Kobashi & Tamon Honda - June 6th 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ****1/4
14. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Juventud Guerrera & Ricky Marvin - November 1st 2003 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ****1/4
Disc 5
13. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA vs. Yoshinobu Kanemaru & Takashi Sugiura - June 5th 2005 - Sapporo Media Park Spica ****1/2
12. Takeshi Rikio & Takeshi Morishima vs. Naomichi Marufuji & KENTA - July 16th 2006 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ****1/2
11. KENTA vs. SUWA - September 18th 2005 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ****1/4
Disc 6
10. Kenta Kobashi vs. Akira Taue - September 10th 2004 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ****1/2
9. Kenta Kobashi & Kentaro Shiga vs. Jun Akiyama & Akitoshi Saito - 19th October 2002 - Tokyo Korakuen Hall ****
8. Naomichi Marufuji vs. KENTA - October 29th 2006 - Tokyo Nippon Budokan ****3/4+
It started off really fucking good with Sugiura selling the leg so well with his screaming but then it just slowly got worse and worse and it ends up lasting nearly 30 minutes and I just didn't care by about the 20 minute mark. They pretty much gave up on the awesome first 5 minutes and then didn't seem to know where to go with the rest of the match.
4. KUDO/Makoto Oishi/Dansyoku Deeno -vs- Kota Ibushi/Kenny Omega/Kazuaki Hirata.
This match was a billion times better than anything on the NOAH shows, including the KOW tags.
I'm not normally a fan of NOAH's booking, but that card looks stacked.
I say if Go is injured, go with Takayama as the next Heavyweight Champion. Go with Kanemaru as the next Junior Champion and KENTA & Kanemura are already Jr. Tag Champs. Have an NWO type angle with No Mercy taking over. Then at the biggest show of the year have Go come back and WRECK Takayama's shit and take what's his. The GHC Heavyweight Title.
Suzuki's reign has been just about the only bright spark in NOAH this year and there's still loads of potentially great defenses for him. Kanemaru's last reign was god awful too.
Kanemaru only had his last reign because Suzuki got hurt when he was supposed to win it. The entire point of his last reign was to keep it warm for Suzuki. Not that Kanemaru has seemed very motivated the past 5 years.
GOOD FUCKING GRIEF! Did these two have a Hardy/Edge real life falling out or something. Story is basically Tenryu is a stiff old bastard who loves to fight (copyright belongs to Finlay) and Yatsu is....a stiff old bastard who loves to fight. Within the first 30 seconds Yatsu rocks Tenryu with a fucking ferocious slap to the eardrum followed by a harrowing enzugiri to said eardrum. Tenryu also looked concussed after a Yatsu lariat and I was convinced numerous times Tenryu would have to lose via stoppage. Tenryu gets some revenge with vintage toe kicks to Yatsu's eye as well as some sickening kicks and punches to his kidney, I marked like a bitch as well for the bulldog on the solid floor (fuck having protective padding break his fall, Tenryu is old school...and a stiff old bastard who loves to fight). Go watch this match yesterday, ****1/4
Yoshiaki Fujiwara v Hiroshi Hase, NJPW 08/08/1993
These two have great chemistry and I need to track down the 03/05/1993 match (or it could be 05/03/1993 fuck america and its backward ass dates). Fujiwara has some great stichk including a glorious strut, a FUCKING STRUT. Hase taunts him with a sumo dance and Fujiwara calls time out in a way that reminds me of good 'ol Arn Anderson. Fujiwara has a gorgeous reversal off of a german suplex into a fujiwara armbar and Hase's reversal of an armbar into a dragon suplex was nasty looking. Smooth mat work which felt organic and displayed a real sense of struggle, just another great Fujiwara display (and Hase as well), need to try and get a Goodhelmet/Segunda Caida PWFG compilation which has a shit ton of Fujiwara. ****
Yeah Andy I heard great things about that Shamrock v Sano match, thinking of picking up a few Schneider comps as well, 23 and 25 in particular look beastly. That PWFG set looks incredibly tempting as does a Volk Han set I heard about as well as a BattlARTS set. The ultimate sets for me though are the Kawada/Tenryu sets Goodhelmet released.
As for Goodhelmet, can anyone email him and enquire about purchasing a set? Or do you have to be a registed DVDVR member, I only ask because I know he does deals for DVDVR members I believe who purchase other sets getting newer sets at discounted rates, or something along those lines
I was under the impression it had. I remembered people on here salivating when the 55 disc Kawada set was finished, and remember someone saying 'can't wait for Tenryu's set to drop'. At the time I took that to mean they'd ordered it and were waiting for delivery but thinking now it could have meant it hadn't been released yet.
On the topic of Goodhelmet I actually got him to activate my DVDVR account while purchasing something from him so yes he will sell to basically anyone.
If is the 06/03/2011 show where Daichi Hashimoto makes his debut, then I watched the Takayama v Ohtani match a few days back. The usual Takayama greatness with a lot of stiff punches, knee strikes and dangerous germans. Can't remember the Daichi match at all though, most of the matches are all on youtube though.
That YAMATO vs Mochizuki Match From Dead Or Alive 2011 Is One Of The Most Amazin Matches I've Ever Seen From Dragon Gate. You Can't Go Wrong With That Wrestling/MMA/Submission/Strong Style Combination. Awesome Match All Around.
Just got the 80's All Japan set (thanks Seabs )...
Jumbo Tsuruta vs. Dick Murdoch (2/23/80)
At first I was getting a little bored with the first fall, as it just seemed like boring generic holds with nothing much else going on. Then I started paying more attention to DICK~!. Guy was really awesome, and honestly he seemed to be the only one in the match actually fucking working. Jumbo was just kinda there for a lot of the early parts; locking Murdoch in arm holds and shit and just sitting there. Murdoch on the other hand was either selling his arm really well, talking shit to Jumbo while he has HIM in a hold, or doing some of the awesome "little things" while he has Jumbo in a hold. Especially loved the head scissors spot with Murdoch getting more leverage on the hold by twisting his body forward and whatnot rather than just sitting there, and then when Jumbo seems to be trying to escape he shoves his head down to try and stop him, and then when he does almost get out he hits a mini piledriver that I'm sure Andy mentioned loving lol.
Jumbo starts to get a little more fired up towards the end of the first fall; just looking more desperate when putting Murdoch in a hold because he wants to get the advantage and Murdoch seems to be taking way too much control of this match so far. He isn't successful though, and falls victim to the awesomesauce brainbuster!
Murdoch is much more confident now in the second fall with the first fall under his belt, and somewhere to really target (the neck). Shame that he only gets a couple of minutes max to do some work on the neck before Jumbo returns the favour and picks up the win with a neckbreaker.
Now its Jumbo with the confidence going into a new fall, and the neck to target too... plus he seems to be less "lazy" (not the best word, but whatever) than he was in the first fall lol. A bunch of nearfalls on Murdoch due to the neck work, and then Jumbo makes a mistake, injures his knee and gives Murdoch the opening he sorely needed, and he takes full advantage of it, and gets the win with probably the most unique move I've ever seen.
Looked over both Andy and Seabs' posts on this match, and I agree with Andy about the 2nd and 3rd falls being too short and not having a big enough payoff that was building in the first fall. But I did really enjoy the first fall and thought the third fall was pretty good too, with the second fall just kinda being there to make the match go 3 falls. Liked it a little more than Seabs and probably just as much as Andy.
Rating: ***1/2
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